From the monthly archives:

December 2009

We Survived 2009

December 31, 2009

2009 does not seem like it will be looked back upon with any great fondness by the vast majority of people. It was, for most, a difficult year full of economic travails, environmental fears and existential doubts (or was that just me?). The closing year of the decade (are we seriously calling it the Noughties?) [...]

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Postgreen Site Disaster Recovery

December 30, 2009

The day before yesterday we discovered that our company site, postgreen.com, had developed some serious health problems. Pages were displaying incorrectly, plugins were malfunctioning and the code looked like a cat had walked across the keyboard at the beginning of each file. Our immediate attempts to fix this issue by upgrading WordPress (our favorite web [...]

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The Passive Project is Closed

December 28, 2009

The Postgreen Team got a very nice Christmas present this holiday in the form of a closing. The second home in the Passive Project (AKA The Philadelphia Passive House) closed last Thursday finally wrapping up this long lived project. We thank our buyers and wish them the best as they move into their new home. [...]

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Final Pictures from the Philadelphia Passive House

December 18, 2009

The Philadelphia Passive House is about to pass into the possession of its new owners. We held two final tour sessions of the home yesterday which were very well attended. Thanks to all of you who came out. Between tour sessions I took some final pictures, and while I may be adding to these over [...]

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I Imagine Buying Things: Cars vs Houses

December 16, 2009

I took a moment to imagine a strange scenario the other day. I sat back in a comfortable chair, stimulating beverage near at hand and tried to picture myself shopping for a new car. It was an exercise that taxed my imagination but also held an important lesson or two. When looking for a car [...]

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Updates to PostgreenHomes.com – Kitchen Appliances

December 15, 2009

We are in the midst of some overhauls to the Postgreen Homes website which will continue over the next couple weeks. These changes are motivated by budget concerns, warranty issues, new product finds, basic improvements and other lessons of the past months. This is just the first entry in what will be an ongoing series [...]

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Passive Project Tour

December 11, 2009

The Passive House is finished and waiting for its new owners. Settlement will be happening very soon, but lucky for us we have a small window of time where we can still show the house off. That’s right, it’s tour time! This is short notice, so in an effort to give everyone the best chance [...]

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Postgreen Update: Two Awards and a Speaking Engagement

December 8, 2009

This will just be a quick update post to let you know a couple of interesting things that are happening in Postgreen land. I’ll keep it uncharacteristically brief and to the point. Award 1: What do the 100k House project and a skyscraper in Shanghai have in common? They both showed up in Architect Magazine’s [...]

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Skinny Project Sales Update

December 7, 2009

We are nearing the end of our pre-build organizational process (sounds important doesn’t it) and the Skinny Project ground breaking is fast approaching. Everyone over here at Postgreen is very excited about this project and the way in which it incorporates lessons from both the Passive House and LEED experiences. We also have seen some [...]

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Final Pictures from the M&M House

December 3, 2009

The first of the two houses in the Passive Project has settled, and the new owners are happy to finally be in their new Postgreen Home. The always hectic lead up to this closing has limited our blogging (as you probably noticed) and made it difficult to take the time for really good images. I [...]

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